If you’re hiring an organist or pianist who does Catholic weddings, he or she will already have a list of songs in their repertoire that’s appropriate for church weddings. Otherwise if you’re hiring musicians who are not religious, or if you’re using recorded music, then stick with songs on the theme of love, and have your priest approve your choices.

I stuck with lots of the traditional stuff with one or two personal touches thrown in:

These are some great ideas for the music! What exactly happens in the prelude? Is that just background music? Or is it when things are starting (i.e. the priest comes to the front). Slowly making progress!

@autumn865: The prelude is the time when guests are filtering in and sitting down, and ends with the seating of the parents (if you’re making a formal event out of that) or when the bridal party is ready to enter with the processional. My musicians went through about 15 minutes of prelude music actually.